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  • If we are successful in trying to bring back democracy and to restore not only President Aristide, but the concept, the spirit that was in the Governors Island Accord -- that is, a broadbased, functioning representative government that can relate to the business community as well as to the ordinary citizens of Haiti -- then we will have to get ourselves in gear to try to make sure that that economy comes back as quickly as possible.

    President In Press Conference On Haitian Policy ITY National Archives 1994

  • AMANPOUR: The great hope now is that after this war on terrorism, some kind of broadbased alliance can be worked out to bring for the first time in decades a stable government to Afghanistan.

    CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2001 2001

  • Q Both Senator Dole and Mitchell expressed strong doubts about a VAT or any kind of broadbased general tax increase.

    Press Briefing By George Stephanopoulos ITY National Archives 1993

  • I think whatever the final version of this package is will include some kind of broadbased energy tax.

    Press Briefing By Dee Dee Myers ITY National Archives 1993

  • As House Speaker Robert DeLeo identified a brand new hole in this year's state budget that could hit $500 million, state lawmakers danced around solutions, such as broadbased taxes Tuesday, warned that $9 billion in new federal funds could deepen the state's budget crisis if mismanaged, and fretted over the state's rapidly shrinking savings account and the seemingly bottomless economic freefall.

    The Martha's Vineyard Times News Headlines 2009

  • Yesterday, a broadbased coalition of nearly 400 businesses and organizations dedicated to food safety and consumer rights called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to require labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods, to give consumers the right to know what is in our food.

    Naomi Starkman: Just Label It: We Have a Right to Know What's In Our Food Naomi Starkman 2011

  • Yesterday, a broadbased coalition of nearly 400 businesses and organizations dedicated to food safety and consumer rights called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to require labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods, to give consumers the right to know what is in our food.

    Naomi Starkman: Just Label It: We Have a Right to Know What's In Our Food Naomi Starkman 2011

  • Part of the problem is Americans are not willing to accept a broadbased national VAT/GST.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » EEEEEEEEK! Taxe Rates Required to Erase the Deficit 2009

  • Said Dodd of the broadbased, grassroots internet protest, "It's a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users in order to further their corporate interests."

    The Sopa blackout protest makes history | Amy Goodman 2012

  • Yesterday, a broadbased coalition of nearly 400 businesses and organizations dedicated to food safety and consumer rights called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to require labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods, to give consumers the right to know what is in our food.

    Naomi Starkman: Just Label It: We Have a Right to Know What's In Our Food Naomi Starkman 2011

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